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Lisa: Ew! Mom, this whole thing is really creepy. Are you sure you won't talk to Dad?Marge: Mmm, I'd like to, honey, but I'm not sure how. Your father can be surprisingly sensitive. Remember when I giggled at his Sherlock Holmes hat? He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.

"Did you exchange, a walk on part in a war, for a lead role in a cage?"

No but it's not the specific names I don't get. I just don't get what he says, "I'm X, now I'm Y, now I'm Z". Makes no sense to me, that's why I asked if it's a game kids play in America.

You mean when you were a kid, you never pretended you were a famous character for fun? It's like a little kid running around with a towel tied around his neck like a cape, going "Whoosh! I'm Superman!"

It's kind of hard to explain these kinds of jokes that have their root in stuff that people just do for no apparent reason.

Homer: Number One? What kind of stupid weiner name is that? "Hello, my name is Number One!" ...and so forth.

Originally Posted by Wavy Gravy

You mean when you were a kid, you never pretended you were a famous character for fun? It's like a little kid running around with a towel tied around his neck like a cape, going "Whoosh! I'm Superman!"

I meant specifically that he keeps changing from one character to another. I guess he just has ADD.

Lisa: Ew! Mom, this whole thing is really creepy. Are you sure you won't talk to Dad?Marge: Mmm, I'd like to, honey, but I'm not sure how. Your father can be surprisingly sensitive. Remember when I giggled at his Sherlock Holmes hat? He sulked for a week and then closed his detective agency.

Great line.

"I'm Dick Tracy! Take that PruneFace! Now I'm PruneFace! Take that Dick Tracy! Now I'm Prune Tracy...........

I also love that quote - I was laughing my head off when I followed it to the logical conclusion, and found myself thinking "Can they imply that on TV?"

I'm a big fan of sight gags. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen "Call of the Simpsons" I still crack up when Homer teaches Bart how to make the trap for the rabbit, and it's catapulted off over the horizon. I always wondered why that didn't happen when we studied survival skills in scouts. . .

Same episode, Ned's parents: "You gotta help us, Doc! Yeah, we've tried nothin' and we're all out of ideas!"

I love Skinners flash back moments where his memory drifts back to his days in 'Nam and POW days. Probs my fave of these is the time he recalls being made to eat a stew made of fish, vegetables, prawns, and four kinds of rice.

''I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right! ''

I also love Dr Nick's bit from 22 Short Films, where he explains his misuse of the cadavers - "I get here earlier when I drive in the carpool lane." When I first saw the episode I had no idea what a cadaver or a carpool lane was so it made no sense whatsoever. Now I get it I find it hilarious.

Originally Posted by thegardens

''I came close to madness trying to find it here in the States, but they just can't get the spices right! ''

Originally Posted by Captain What's His Name

Marge: Come on Homer, Japan will be fun! You liked "Rashomon"!
Homer: That's not how I remember it!

Two fantastic subtle jokes! Though I think anyone who gets the Rashomon joke loves it so it's not totally underrated.